{"id":2518267,"date":"2025-12-06T11:50:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T16:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-given-week-of-wins-and-fake-scandal-white-house-report-card\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T11:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T16:51:36","slug":"trump-given-week-of-wins-and-fake-scandal-white-house-report-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-given-week-of-wins-and-fake-scandal-white-house-report-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump given week of wins and fake scandal: White House Report Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-given-week-of-wins-and-fake-scandal-white-house-report-card%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2518267&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reviews a recent week in the trump presidency, highlighting a mix of achievements and controversies. Key events included President Trump and the frist Lady lighting the National Christmas Tree, visits from foreign leaders, receipt of the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, a televised Cabinet meeting, significant presidential pardons, and critical remarks about Somali immigrants. Trump also faced scrutiny over a military &#8220;double tap&#8221; strike on a suspected drug boat but secured several legal victories, including court approval to remove Democratic appointees from autonomous agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent humorously described Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >late-night policy calls<\/a>, countering media claims about the president&#8217;s health. Despite some positive developments, such as a Republican special election win in Tennessee and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-bad-news-for-biden-november-jobs-report-is-major-bust\/\" title=\"More Bad News for Biden: November Jobs Report is Major Bust\">strong stock market<\/a>, Trump&#8217;s approval ratings showed declines due to ongoing economic concerns among voters.<\/p>\n<p>Political analysts offered contrasting evaluations: conservative Jed Babbin gave Trump a &#8220;B&#8221; grade, praising economic indicators and electoral successes while noting diplomatic tensions with Venezuela and immigration issues; meanwhile, democratic pollster John Zogby assigned an &#8220;F,&#8221; criticizing the FIFA award, waning international goodwill, immigration policies targeting Somalis, and perceived declines in morale and economic conditions under Trump&#8217;s management. Looking ahead, Trump plans to campaign on improving affordability to influence the 2026 midterm elections.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump given week of wins and fake scandal: White House Report Card<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2423432\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>It&rsquo;s getting harder to recall those sleepy days of early lids and gushy stories about presidential ice cream trips during the Biden administration after 45 weeks of the second whirlwind <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Trump presidency.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Treasury Secretary <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/scott-bessent\/\">Scott Bessent<\/a> described it best in a story about getting late-night policy calls from President Donald Trump. He said, &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll call me, &lsquo;Scott, I didn&rsquo;t wake you, did I?&rsquo; No, sir, I&rsquo;m always awake at 1:52 a.m. on a Tuesday!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3907362\/2024-election-analysis-trump-most-important-president\/\">Trump &#8216;most important president in maybe 100 years&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3905865\/virginia-election-black-friday-gun-sales-background-checks-spike\/\">Virginians scramble to beat liberal gun grabs and bans<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3905682\/liberal-media-disguised-politics-charlie-kirk-alleged-assassin-tyler-robinson\/\">Liberal media disguised politics of Charlie Kirk&rsquo;s alleged assassin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>This week was no different and included the president and first lady lighting the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3907214\/washington-dc-lights-the-national-christmas-tree\/\">National Christmas Tree,<\/a> visits from foreign leaders, his acceptance of the inaugural <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3908607\/trump-peace-prize-fifa-world-cup-draw\/\">FIFA Peace Prize,<\/a> a televised Cabinet meeting, notable and controversial presidential pardons, and a slam on Minnesota&rsquo;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columnists\/3907219\/not-all-immigrants-equal-minnesota-fraud-somalia\/\">Somali immigrants.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He also deflected a mini-scandal over the military&rsquo;s &ldquo;double tap&rdquo; on a suspected narco boat, and was handed several court victories, including one Friday that <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3909078\/dc-appeals-court-trump-remove-democratic-appointees-independent-agencies\/\">OK&rsquo;d his firing<\/a> of Democratic agency leaders.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#128680; JUST IN: Scott Bessent PUMMELS the media for latching on to the theory that Donald Trump&#8217;s health is &#8220;deteriorating&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;ll call me, &#8216;Scott, I didn&#8217;t wake you, did I?&#8217; No, sir, I&#8217;m always awake at 1:52AM on a Tuesday!&#8221; &#128514;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did the trip to Alaska. We did a round trip one&hellip; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4dwZnCXtLM\">pic.twitter.com\/4dwZnCXtLM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricLDaugh\/status\/1996404390974918972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>Is it too much? Polls show that Trump is wearing on some and his approval ratings are trending down, especially among those who don&rsquo;t believe the cost of living is improving as the president promised.<\/p>\n<p>And that&rsquo;s why Trump is scheduled to hit the road next week to talk up his team&rsquo;s hope for better &ldquo;affordability&rdquo; next year, leading up to the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/midterm-elections\/\">2026 congressional midterm elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our graders were split on Trump&rsquo;s week, as usual. Conservative analyst Jed Babbin graded the week a &ldquo;B,&rdquo; and pointed to the Republican special election victory in Tennessee. Democratic pollster John Zogby came in with an &ldquo;F,&rdquo; and spoke for many in mocking the FIFA award.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jed Babbin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Grade: B<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>It seems that this was Venezuela and Somalia week at the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\">White House<\/a>, with President Donald Trump threatening ground action in South America, a hot and heavy media debate on the second hit on a drug boat, and Trump saying he doesn&rsquo;t want Somali immigrants in the U.S. On the way to all that, there was a bunch of good news.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>First, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed the week just shy of 48,000. That means the U.S. economy is doing right well. Second, the Tennessee special House election went to the Republican, but by a smaller margin than Trump won that district a year ago. All of those wishing and hoping that newly-minted Rep. Matt Van Epps [R-TN] would lose &mdash; enabling disastrous predictions for the 2026 midterm elections &mdash; were hugely disappointed.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden&#8217;s Christmas vs Trump&#8217;s Christmas <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mjr7glXyqq\">pic.twitter.com\/Mjr7glXyqq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/1995510138309112278?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p><em>Trump said that we were closing the airspace above Venezuela and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senior-isis-leader-captured-in-u-s-led-coalition-raid-in-syria\/\" title=\"Senior ISIS Leader Captured in U.S.-led Coalition Raid in Syria\">military ground operations<\/a> would soon begin against narco terrorists. If he wants to scare Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro out of office, he&rsquo;ll have to do more than just threaten. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\/\">Congress<\/a> seems to want to get in on the act.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What began as a media squall soon took on a life of its own. The <\/em>Washington Post <em>reported that War Secretary <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pete-hegseth\/\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> had ordered a second strike on drug boat survivors in September. A week or so later, the <\/em>New York Times<em> <em>&mdash;<\/em><\/em> <em>no friend of Trump <em>&mdash;<\/em> said they could find no confirmation of the story among their sources. Adm. Frank Bradley, commander of Special Operations Command, said he ordered the second hit and that neither Trump nor Hegseth likely knew about it until it was over. But the story nevertheless has legs, and Congress wants in on it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rand-paul\/\">Rand Paul<\/a> <\/em>(<em>R-KY), who is a conservative only when those principles intersect with his libertarianism, joined Democrats to push a bill restraining Trump&rsquo;s money to hit the drug boats. Meanwhile, the Senate Armed Services Committee is scheduling hearings for Hegseth to testify under oath about the attacks. The SASC plans to hit Trump and Hegseth severely, trying to assert congressional powers over war. They won&rsquo;t succeed because Congress is too disorganized for something like that. But they&rsquo;ll harrumph about the War Powers Resolution, passed in 1973 over President Nixon&rsquo;s veto, which supposedly cancels presidential orders committing troops for longer than 60 days, and which is probably unconstitutional. It&rsquo;s another chance for Trump to make new law through the courts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Meanwhile, the Supreme Court said it would take up Trump&rsquo;s case that seeks to outlaw birthright citizenship for illegal aliens. Don&rsquo;t laugh. Trump could easily win that one because the only SCOTUS precedent, which is more than a century old, dealt just with legal immigrant parents of a Chinese person. (US v Wong Kim Ark, 1898)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Zogby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Grade: F<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>President Donald Trump was just <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3908607\/trump-peace-prize-fifa-world-cup-draw\/\">awarded the first (and possibly only)<\/a> FIFA Peace Award. In his acceptance, he said the world is a lot safer today under his leadership.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This comes as new polling shows that the people of nine nations in Europe see Trump more as an enemy than as a friend. All of the countries are U.S. allies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It also comes at a time when ICE has launched a major initiative to rid the U.S. of Somalis, a people that Trump referred to this week in his Cabinet meeting as &ldquo;garbage.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Folks in the Caribbean are probably not feeling safer as U.S. forces are targeting Venezuelan boats and killing their crews just as the president is warning that a U.S. land offensive could be imminent. The White House and the Secretary of Defense have changed their stories about how and what transpired in the sinking of one such boat and its crew in early September.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One survey of Foreign Service workers found that 98% feel lower morale since Trump took office in January. Job layoffs are at their highest now than at any time since the pandemic. Manufacturing has shrunk, and 46% of Americans blame Trump for the high cost of living.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Does the NBA give an award?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\">SEE THE LATEST POLITICAL NEWS AND BUZZ FROM WASHINGTON SECRETS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jed Babbin<\/strong>&nbsp;is a&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner<\/em>&nbsp;contributor and former deputy undersecretary of defense in the administration of former President George H.W. Bush. Follow him on X&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jedbabbin\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@jedbabbin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Zogby<\/strong>&nbsp;is the founder of the Zogby Survey and senior partner at&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/johnzogbystrategies.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Zogby Strategies.<\/a>&nbsp;His latest book is&nbsp;<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beyond-Horse-Race-Polls-Should\/dp\/1538197146\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Beyond the Horse Race: How to Read Polls and Why We Should<\/a><\/em>. His podcast with son and managing partner and pollster Jeremy Zogby&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/johnzogbystrategies.com\/the-zogby-report\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">can be heard here<\/a>. Follow him on X&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/zogbystrategies\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@ZogbyStrategies<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s week: wins, fake scandal, and nonstop action<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"featured_media":2518268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AP25339652888262.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4633,3634,32127],"class_list":["post-2518267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-scandal","tag-trump","tag-white-house"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AP25339652888262.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518271,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518267\/revisions\/2518271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2518268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}